The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography, B. T. S. Atkins, Michael Rundell, Literaturwissenschaft

The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography

2008, 448 Seiten, Maße: 17,2 x 24,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch

Oxford University Press ISBN-10: 0199277710
ISBN-13: 9780199277711

Produkt-Beschreibung zu: The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography

This is a down-to-earth, 'how to do it' textbook on the making of dictionaries. Written by professional lexicographers with over seventy years' experience between them, the book presents a step-by-step course for the training of lexicographers in all settings, including publishing houses, colleges, and universities world-wide, and for the teaching of lexicography as an academic discipline. It takes readers through the processes of designing, collecting, and annotating a corpus of
texts; shows how to analyse the data in order to extract the relevant information; and demonstrates how these findings are drawn together in the semantic, grammatical, and pedagogic components that make up an entry. The authors explain the relevance and application of recent linguistic theories, such
as prototype theory and frame semantics, and describe the role of software in the manipulation of data and the compilation of entries. They provide practical exercises at every stage.
The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography draws on materials developed by the authors over more than twenty years of teaching courses for publishing houses and universities in the US, Japan, Hong Kong and China, South Africa, Australia, the UK, and Europe. It will be welcomed everywhere by lexicographers, teachers of lexicography, and their students. It is also fascinating reading for all those interested in discovering how dictionaries are made.

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The authors deserve the highest praise for producing a unique account of best practice in modern dictionary-making, based on their extensive and highly successful experience. Their explication of the relevant theoretical notions is highly engaging, admirably clear (with only the rare exception), and at times even entertaining. Robert Lew, ELT Journal OGPL will no doubt make one of the standard reference books on corpus-based lexicography in the years ahead. Kazou Dohi, Lexicon ...eminently practical, ...

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Autoren-Porträt von B. T. S. Atkins, Michael Rundell:

Sue Atkins has worked as a lexicographer since 1966. She was General Editor of the first Collins-Robert English-French Dictionary series, co-designer of the Cobuild project and Lexicographic Adviser to Oxford University Press. She is currently Adviser to the FrameNet Project at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California. Michael Rundell has worked as a lexicographer since 1980. As Managing Editor at Longman Dictionaries for over ten years, he was responsible for running major ...

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